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In addition, among hospitalized patients over 65, CHF is the leading hospital admission diagnosis. In 1988 alone, it accounted fo...
of happiness, contentment or relief, or something above ordinary existence. The patient should do more than subsist. 4. Care shoul...
who choose to use qualitative methods tend to seek a deeper reality, inasmuch as their aim is to "study things in their natural se...
patient care" (p. 438). Prior to 1970, nursing training in the UK could be described as rigid and highly structured. After...
Primary Care Act, a feature of both practices is that the patients have the option of seeing a GP or a NP as their first point of ...
their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...
call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...
deal of pain likely will occur during the first 24 hours after surgery (Drakeford, Pettine, Brookshire and Ebert, 1991). Preventi...
"Many changes in health care yesterday, have major unforeseen consequences today. While it is easy to predict results with the be...
Issues pertinent to these five elements include conceptual framework, scope of practice, policy implications and support of social...
and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...
effective leader was his ability to build bridges between communities, between upper and lower caste Hindus and among Hindus, Musl...
That freedom and responsibility can improve the nursing home experience for all involved. Definition and Clarification...
the restrained person and others. This implies that the force used in restraining the person is less injurious to all concerned th...
be in agreement with a working definition of autonomy. Thus, the following attributes should be seen: self-determination, in...
that time. What might be needed, then, would be some plan of action that the staff could follow, or possibly some type of polite s...
to health care. Many of the same questions that can apply to assessing the validity of qualitative research can be used to ...
practitioners that do not hold an MSN degree, and the resulting population would be too homogeneous to be of any real benefit. ...
and other health care workers cope with musculoskeletal problems even in the primary care setting. A Wausau Insurance Company rep...
present-day nurse, he notes, this can be construed to mean a caring about the well-being of those the nurse serves which, in this ...
term. The rationale is that the experienced nurse will guide the new graduate into the active and applied portion of the pr...
incremental. It occurs in small steps, each of which are interspersed with a period of adjustment. This can be useful in staffin...
of pregnancies, pending on the population and the definitions used (Walker, 2000). Hypertension in pregnancy is typically classi...
general systems model serves as an example. Nursing research formerly was purely quantitative in design, and any qualitativ...
"understanding the fit," Beyea and Nicoll (2000) point out that: "A clinical expert continually questions knowledge, constantly le...
cosmic forces: they comprise the primal and universal psychic energy yet are overlooked * We have to treat our "self" with gentlen...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
such as communication, space, and time are relevant to these cultural issues. Communication and culture are interrelated, and many...
level work. An example is that the nurse practitioner can have his or her own practice under a doctors supervision. Still, they ma...
infinitely more to the aspect of nursing than administering medicine; in fact, the myriad components that ultimately comprise the ...